We compared nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint scores among 17 men (10 with bulimia nervosa and 7 with anorexia nervosa) and 50 women (20 with bulimia nervosa and 30 with anorexia nervosa), who were consecutive patients at a major treatment center in Brazil. There were no differences in nutritional knowledge and concern with food between men and women. For bot...

Bulimia nervosa has been associated with a dysregulated catecholamine system. Nevertheless, the influence of this dysregulation on bulimic symptoms, on neural activity, and on the course of the illness is not clear yet. An instructive paradigm for directly investigating the relationship between catecholaminergic functioning and bulimia nervosa has involved the behavioral and neural responses to...

Conventional treatment of Bulimia Nervosa is long term, expensive, and often ineffective. Neural therapy holds promise for treating Bulimia Nervosa in a shorter term, lower cost, and more effective manner. Much of neural therapy involves the superficial injection of local anesthetic injections. Implementation into current practice would be feasible.

PURPOSE Obesity has been identified as a risk factor for the development of bulimia nervosa (BN) in those who try to lose weight. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of walking exercise in order to provide a method for overcoming bulimia nervosa in obese young women suffering from bulimia nervosa. METHODS Twenty obese women with bulimia nervosa (body mass index [BMI]>30...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors are effective in the treatment of bulimia nervosa. There have been relatively few studies of the efficacy of specific serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of eating disorders. Twenty-five outpatients with binge eating episodes, diagnosed as anorexia nervosa, binge-eating/purging...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the relative course and outcome of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. METHODS Two community-based cohorts were studied prospectively over a 5-year year period. One comprised 102 participants with bulimia nervosa and the other 48 participants with binge eating disorder (21% [9/42] of whom had comorbid obesity). All participants were female and aged betw...

AMA Gałuszka K, Daniluk B. The profile of “hot” and “cool” executive functions in young women with anorexia bulimia nervosa. Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia/Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology. 2023;18(1):46-55. doi:10.5114/nan.2023.129071. APA Gałuszka, K., & Daniluk, (2023). Neuropsychology, 18(1), 46-55. https://doi.org/10.5114/nan.2023.129071 Chicago Kinga M., Beata M. Daniluk. 2023. "The n...

Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and atypical eating disorder (eating disorder not otherwise specified or NOS), are estimated to occur in 5-10 million young and adult women and one million males in the United States. The etiology of eating disorders is complex and appears to include predisposing genetic factors and serotonin dysregulation, as...

According to International Classification of Diseases by World Health Organization, eating disorders are behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbances [1]. Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, atypical bulimia nervosa, overeating associated with other psychological disturbances and vomiting associated with other psychological ...

Bulimia nervosa appears to be a significant medical condition and a serious social problem since it requires long term and multi-dimensional treatment, and its incidence rates among young generation (predominantly women), has incresed significantly in recent years. The results of scientific research described in psychological and psychiatric literature point to a variety of factors that contrib...